Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολύστιχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύστιχος πολύστιχον

Structure: πολυστιχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. in many rows

Examples

  • πλὴν γὰρ τοῦ μεγάλων εἶναι καὶ πολλῶν καὶ πολυστίχων τῶν στύλων οὐδὲν ἔχει χαρίεν οὐδὲ γραφικόν, ἀλλὰ ματαιοπονίαν ἐμφαίνει μᾶλλον. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 55:13)

Synonyms

  1. in many rows

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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